In the Electric Mist

Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is juggling two murder cases, one involving a young girl and the other a chained black man who was shot in a swamp 40 years ago. We’ve met Robicheaux on screen before in Heaven’s Prisoners (1996), but in Jones’s guise he becomes a more compelling figure. Director Bertrand Tavernier brings us along for an exciting but unremarkable story where Louisiana’s dank swamps, Katrina-ravaged neighborhoods, the acting and Marco Beltrami’s music score are more thrilling than the murder cases. Oddly enough, the film was never shown in U.S. theaters.

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I studied film at Halmstad University and practical filmmaking at the New York Film Academy. Now I’m a critic for the Swedish daily Aftonbladet. Opinions expressed on this personal website are solely mine and not related to Aftonbladet.